London Country Life 1927

Second edition, x, 438pp. Illustrated with photographs. Folio. Original green cloth, backed boards. Both text and illustrations were extensively revised from the first edition. Illustrates all kinds of garden ornaments including wood and iron gates, steps, balustrades, urns, vases, courts, paved ways, seats, loggias, orangeries, dovecotes, parterres, sundials, topiary, pergolas, treillage, canals, ponds, water gardens, bridges, fountains. Superb photographs showing these elements in garden settings. Considered to be the best edition.

US MIT Press 1986

285 pp. Over 400 b/w ills, incl. line drawings, historical maps, diagrams, engravings and photographs. Cloth boards in illustrated dust wrapper, slight scuff marks at edges. Very good. Large 4to. Eloquent, superbly illustrated study of the origins of the modern city, and the social, psychological, and formal transformations influencing architects in the design of public spaces in cities. Focusses on the French 'hotel' as a development from an Italian prototype, and 'sophisticated instrument of urbanism', in its internal and external organisation of buildings and gardens.

John Murray printed at the Oxford University Press 1911

xii + (1) + 148 +(1)pp and c38 illustrations mainly sepia plates. Folio Green spine with gilt title, contrasting cloth backed boards, Corners slightly bumped. Internally very good. Attractive copy. The definitive record of William Robinson's own house and garden. The manor became the home of this creative, innovative and revolutionary gardener in 1884. Robinson spent his remarkable life as a professional gardener and botanist, but made his fortune through writing about his experiences and ideas on horticulture which enabled him to acquire and develop Gravetye Manor which now is operated as a hotel.

New Haven and London, Yale University Press 2001

xiii +289pp with 253 b/w illustrations, many in colour. Cloth in d/w, very good. A fascinating study, tracing the development of domestic gardening from a necessity to a recreational and aspirational pursuit. The previously overlooked subject of domestic gardens in London compliments recent research into small urban houses.

B T Batsford Ltd 1983

248pp with 81 b/w and 12 colour illustrations, 4to, cloth, dw. Vg in good dw. Useful overview of the design of landscapes covering key designers and their lesser known counterparts. Useful background on Capability Brown and his contemporary practitioners.